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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
There were many occasions in my career where I could have given up, where I asked myself whether I would ever make it.
The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been very badly treated by his people.
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
I've met Nelson Mandela a couple of times and it was an unbelievable experience on both occasions; the most amazing moment of my life.
On various occasions we have been able to host almost all Monegasques on the palace square... It feels like a big family.
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.
Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.
So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.
Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.
I find shaving in general an utter chore so even removing the hair on the body parts that are on display happens on the rarest of occasions.
It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.
Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
There are occasions when the general belief of the people, even though it be groundless, works its effect as sure as truth itself.
On a number of occasions, I have made it clear that Sinn Fein policy was to argue for the establishment of an independent, international truth commission.
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.
I grew up in a household where sweets were not given to you whenever you want. It was restricted only to special occasions.
The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.
As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.
The Parisian way to be chic is to look super sharp for everyday things and then do effortless casual for night occasions.
Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.
Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.
Occasions for defining moments do not arise every day. When they do, we must seize the opportunities they present for improving everyone's life.
As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.
Big occasions and races which have been eagerly anticipated almost to the point of dread, are where great deeds can be accomplished.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.
Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions. They embarrass everyone but provide material for conversation. In their positive form, they become diplomats.
From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.
It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.
On several occasions, I've felt like my career has wound up. I was sad and upset; my roles were snipped, and I wasn't treated fairly.
If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Muzaffarnagar is 40 kilometers from my village. So I used to see films if I was able to save money and on special occasions like Eid, Diwali.
It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.
On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.
Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.
One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions.
On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.
I don't wear dresses all the time - it's nice to save those moments for certain occasions and to make it feel extra special.
Also we Italians have something to Elvis Presley: to offer one of the rare occasions when we prefer to be Italian rather than American.
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
I've become more mature on and off the court, and I've learned how to deal with some of those big occasions much better.
I'm aware of people's association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn't dominate my thoughts all the time.
Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.
